After Effects CC Building on the Fundamentals

By Jeff Sengstack
Looking to go beyond the basics in After Effects? This course presents advanced features in After Effects CC, including creating 3D objects, 2D and 3D motion tracking, uses of paint tools, and making fun animations with the Particle World effect.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Sep 15, 2017
Duration
6h 6m
Table of contents
Using Paint and Puppet Tools
Setting up a Paint Workspace 6m Working with the Brush Tool 8m Using the Eraser Tool 7m Creating Animated Paint Strokes with the Write-on Effect 10m Using the Clone Stamp Tool 11m Creating Mattes with the Roto Brush Tool 9m Using the Refine Edge Tool on Mattes 7m Animating Objects and Characters with Puppet Tools 11m
Working with 2D Tracker Features
Tracking Objects in Motion 9m Attaching Objects and Layers to Tracked Motion 9m Applying Effects to Tracked Motion 10m Working with Corner Pins 6m Tracking Faces and Facial Elements (Eyes, Mouth, Nose) 9m Stabilizing Shaky Camera Shots with the Tracker 10m Stabilizing Shaky Footage with the Warp Stabilizer 9m
Working with the 3D Camera Tracker
Introducing the 3D Camera Tracker Video Effect 8m Attaching Content to 3D Camera Tracked Panning and Zooming Clips 12m Attaching Content to 3D Camera Tracked Dolly/Trucking Shots 11m Inserting Lights and Shadow Catchers into 3D Camera Tracked Scenes 13m
Creating Ray-traced 3D Text, Shapes, and Layers
Explaining Four After Effects 3D Options 4m Creating 3D Text 9m Creating 3D Shapes 10m Working with Lights 9m Adding Material Options: Reflections, Refractions, and Transparency 9m Bending Footage and Layers 10m Using a Spherical Environment on Reflective Surfaces 7m
Using Masks
Explaining Mask Concepts 5m Drawing Masks with Shape and Pen Tools 9m Creating Masks from Photoshop Paths 7m Applying Effects and Animating Masks 11m Using Blending Modes to Combine Layers 7m Using Track Mattes, Stencils, and Silhouettes 10m
Particle World
Particle World Demonstration 4m Setting up Particle World 6m Creating Particles 11m Controlling the Animation 9m Setting up a Blow Torch Animation Project 8m Completing the Animated Blow Torch Project 8m
Controlling Time
Presenting Some Examples 6m Video Shooting Tips 6m Using Time-stretch and Frame Blending 9m Understanding Time Remapping 10m Using Time Reverse to Create Magic 10m
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Sep 15, 2017
Duration
6h 6m
Description

Do you have some basic knowledge about working in After Effects and want to ramp up your skills? In this course, After Effects CC Building on the Fundamentals, you'll learn how to create exceptional visual effects, extraordinary motion graphics, and exciting animated text. First, you'll explore advanced features, including using 3D tracking to add objects, lights, and shadows in 3D space, creating 3D text and shapes, and making animations with the Particle World video effect. Next, you'll cover how to use masks, track mattes, stencils, and silhouettes to highlight or conceal portions of a video clip. Additionally, you'll learn how to use effects and blending modes to further enhance the masked areas. Finally, you'll discover how to control time by creating slow-motion, fast motion, reverse motion, and freeze frames. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the necessary knowledge to utilize a variety of skills and techniques in After Effects CC. Software required: After Effects CC.

About the author
Jeff Sengstack
About the author

Jeff Sengstack is a video and audio producer. He is an Adobe certified expert in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Photoshop. He also works with Adobe Audition, Encore, and SpeedGrade. He is a former TV news reporter. He is author with O'Reilly Media and lynda.com and has written six how-to books on digital media topics.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Jeff Sengstack. Welcome to my course, After Effects CC Building on the Fundamentals. I'm an Adobe Certified Expert in After Effects with more than a decade of experience working with After Effects. I'm the lead instructor at the bluefx. net After Effects Academy and a former junior college digital media instructor. I've been a consultant for Adobe and created its Digital Media Higher Education Curriculum Guide. If you have some basic knowledge about working in After Effects and want to ramp up your skills, then this course is for you or if you've taken my Pluralsight After Effects CC Fundamentals course and want to step up to the next level, then this course fits the bill. In this course I show you how to create exceptional visual effects, extraordinary motion graphics, and exciting animated text. I present advanced features including tracking moving objects in video clips and then attaching items or effects to those moving objects, using 3D tracking throughout objects, light and shadows to video clips in 3D space, creating 3D text and shapes, fun uses of paint tools and making exciting animations with the particle world video effect. I show you how to use masks, track mats, stencils and silhouettes to highlight or conceal portions of a video clip, then I explain how to use effects and blending modes to further enhance the masked areas. Finally, I show you how to control time. You can create slow motion, fast motion, reverse motion and freeze frames. If you are a video editor and want to go beyond the basics, or if you are a corporate marketing person wanting to create exciting promotional videos or if you are a story teller who wants to enhance your narratives, then After Effects CC, Building on the Fundamentals is the right course for you.

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